Compactifications of F-theory on Calabi-Yau threefolds. II

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00369-0zbMath0925.14007arXivhep-th/9603161OpenAlexW2141554589MaRDI QIDQ1921574

Publication date: 27 August 1996

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9603161

zbMATH Keywords

heterotic strings transition points Argyres Douglas points elliptically fibered manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of deformations of analytic structures to the sciences (32G81) Compact complex (3)-folds (32J17) Deformations of complex singularities; vanishing cycles (32S30)

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